1. India is still begging the Russians for military equipment.
-India is not begging, we are buying equipment.
2. Russian equipment is light years behind western equipment...
-Will request experts to shed some light on this claim.
3. Been watching Indian news...
-Please stop watching Indian news...
Industrial and technological infrastructure good. How is this transforming Pakistan from agrarian society to industrialist one ? I simply asked for any available statistics or study. But I got recommendation for imported ButtHurt cream. :coffee:
One thing always puzzled me, why Pakistan Steel Mill is not included in CPEC. This massive investment in Infrastructure requires huge quantity of steel. Why are you importing steel ? Steel Mill should have been included in very first phase.
This could also have created a manufacturing ecosystem...
OK, understood. You dont have any data.
Let me rephrase the question, is there any study which can provide insight in to the impact of CPEC in Pakistan's GDP ?
Lack of local manufacturing can not be attributed to lack of market, 220 million is big population (hence big market). It must be something to do with policies.
....The ship’s boilers, which provide Vikramaditya with power and propulsion, are a long-term concern. All eight boilers are new. But yard workers discovered defects in them. During her trip from Russia to India, the flattop suffered a boiler breakdown, which Sevmash chalked up to poor-quality...
You are getting confused between "base" and "position".
Regarding media, there are two kind of people, one reporting from OSINT accounts and other official account (which is not revealing much).
What is this ? Indians are right in to galwan valley facing Chinese forces. Contention is about triangular portion where violent incident took place. (Please see various sat images).